temperature for incubating duck eggs

[wanttobefarmer]

Hello I'm a first time duck egg hatcher. I have hatched out several chicks but this is my first time hatching duck eggs. I increased my humidity and plan on spritzing them once a day after they have been in the bator for 4 days, but my question is temperature. I have a hova bator that is automatically set at 100 degrees. There is a way to adjust the temp but I don't want to mess it up by trying. Has anyone hatched duck eggs at 100 instead of 99.5? Did you take it down to 98.5 the last 4 days? I'm hoping that I won't have to adjust the temps but since they went in today, if I need to do it I had better do it now. Thanks for the information.

 

[WVman]

100 deg. Is ok with a still air bator. My incubator is a forced air so I incubate my duck eggs at 99.5 and have no problems.

 

[TriciaHowe]

I hatch mine side by side with my chicken eggs with no problems.... I don't spray mine though and hold them at the same humidity as my chicken eggs - no higher than 50% with mine.

 

[sheila3935]

I have hatched mine same as chicken eggs in fact last hatch the ducks and chicks hatched at the same time the ducks were a little early and the chicks a little late. DH is so proud cause he did the hatching this time and did very well we got 5 chicks out of 7 eggs and all 4 ducks.

 

[TriciaHowe]

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[wanttobefarmer]

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ok mine is a hova bator with egg turner and fan. If i have a fan is that forced air? should I turn my fan off? thanks for all the responses.

 

[wanttobefarmer]

by the way they are white runner duck eggs with 3 call duck eggs. I am so excited.

 

[WVman]

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ok mine is a hova bator with egg turner and fan. If i have a fan is that forced air? should I turn my fan off? thanks for all the responses.

If you can't get it down to 99.5 I would turn off the fan